Comedian Jack Whitehall has recalled how an audience in Monaco were far from impressed when he poked fun at the recent Louvre heist while hosting a jewellery awards ceremony.
Jack Whitehall’s jokes about the Louvre heist didn’t go down well in Monaco.
The 37-year-old star couldn’t resist poking fun at last month’s theft of £78 million worth of jewels from the Paris museum when he hosted a jewellery awards bash in the Principality but admits that he “died on (his) a***” in front of an unimpressed audience.
In an interview on Friday’s (07.11.25) episode of The Graham Norton Show, Jack recalled: “I was hosting a jewellery awards event in Monaco and I was wondering what on earth I could talk about when the comedy gods delivered the Louvre heist.
“I don’t speak French, so I had no idea that the woman that came on before me said the robbery was one of the most tragic things that had ever happened to the French people, and on I come with a high viz vest with a load of prop jewellery. When I said, ‘Who wants Napoleon’s tiara’, it was tumbleweed. I died on my a***.
“How did I know that mentioning ‘heist’ five times to a room full of jewellers is like shouting ‘bomb’ at an airport. It was horrendous!”
Jack plays an antagonistic male nanny in the Amazon Prime Video series Malice and relished getting to play a “proper villain” for a change.
The Jungle Cruise star said: “It has the vibe of The White Lotus and Mr Ripley. It was such a different role for me as I’m playing a proper villain.”
Jack – who has daughter Elsie, two, with his partner Roxy Horner – was in the process of hiring a nanny while filming for the show and had some “intense questions” for those eyeing the job.
He explained: “I had just become a dad and was hiring a nanny when I was filming it, so my level of questioning was intense!”
Whitehall appears alongside David Duchovny in the show and explained that The X-Files star didn’t know him at first – but was “excited” when the comic was an answer on the British TV programme Catchphrase.
The Afterparty star said: “He didn’t know who I was at the start but while we were filming in England he got obsessed with Catchphrase and was so excited that my name was one of the answers.”
The Graham Norton Show airs on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Friday 7th November at 10.40pm.
Jack Whitehall’s Louvre heist jokes fell flat at Monaco gig
